Sanctuary Practices in International Perspectives

• Foreword (William Walters);Introduction: Sanctuary across Countries, Institutions, and Disciplines (Randy K. Lippert and Sean Rehaag);I. Sanctuary Perspectives: historical, theological, legal, theoretical; Sanctuary for Crime in the Early Common Law (Karl Shoemaker); I took up the case of the stranger’: Arguments from Faith, History and Law (David H. Michels and David Blaikie); The Potential of Sanctuary: Acts of Sanctuary Through the Lens of Camp (Agnes Czajka); Sanctuary sans frontières: Social movements and solidarity in post-war Northern France (Naomi Millner); Part II. Sanctuary Movements and Practices in the United States: Old and New; Legacies and Origins of the 1980s US–Central American Sanctuary Movement (Hector Perla and Susan Bibler Coutin); The Voice of the Voiceless: Religious Rhetoric, Undocumented Immigrants and the New Sanctuary Movement in the United States (Marta Caminero-Santangelo); I didn't know if this was sanctuary’: Strategic adaptation in the U.S. New Sanctuary Movement (Grace Yukich); Part III. Sanctuary Movements and Practices in Europe and Canada: International Comparative and Case Studies: Holy territories and hospitality: Nordic exceptionality and national differences of sanctuary incidents (Jill Loga, Miikka Pyykkönen and Hanne Stenvaag); The Rise and Features of Church Asylum in Germany: ‘I will take refuge in the shadow of thy wings until the storms are past’ (Wolf-Dieter Just); Ethnography of Relationships among Church Sanctuary Actors in Germany (Hiroshi Oda); The Emergence of the Ontario Sanctuary Coalition: From Humanitarian and Compassionate Review to Civil Initiative (Hilary Cunningham); Religious sanctuary in France and Canada (Caroline Patsias and Nastassia Williams); Part IV. Emergent Realms: Cities of Sanctuary and Military Sanctuaries, Everyday Enactments of Sanctuary: The UK City of Sanctuary Movement (Jonathan Darling and Vicki Squire); The Birth of a Sanctuary-City: A History of Governmental Sanctuary in San Francisco (Peter Mancina); The City as a Sanctuary in the United States (Jennifer Ridgley); Seeking sanctuary in a border city: Sanctuary movement(s) across the Canada-US border (Julie E.E. Young); Framing Militant Sanctuary Practices in Afghanistan and Iraq, 2001-2011 (Michael A. Innes)

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